Jean-Henri Fabre Famous Quotes and Saying

History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

Jean-Henri Fabre

kings names food

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

Jean-Henri Fabre

personality mind philosophy

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

Jean-Henri Fabre

wheat records names

In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. ... Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track.

Jean-Henri Fabre

track ignorance reading

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

Jean-Henri Fabre

vulgar herds

All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miraculous. History record the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

Jean-Henri Fabre

destiny pain names

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

Jean-Henri Fabre

beans given vegetables

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Jean-Henri Fabre

heritage bees firsts

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean-Henri Fabre

memories past thinking

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Jean-Henri Fabre

corny commonplace fields

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Jean-Henri Fabre

fossils instinct past

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Jean-Henri Fabre

ignorance perfect feelings

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History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. ... Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miraculous. History record the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Howard Evans